1. The AGATA Demonstrator Array at LNL.
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Farnea, Enrico and Bazzacco, Dino
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NUCLEAR structure , *SPECTRUM analysis , *GERMANIUM , *DETECTORS , *CRYSTALS , *RADIATION , *DOPPLER effect - Abstract
In the past 20 years, a wealth of nuclear structure information has been obtained with γ spectroscopy techniques, by using arrays of Compton-suppressed hyperpure germanium (HPGe) detectors. In these devices, large detection volumes and full peak efficiencies of the order of a few percent (up to 10% for arrays such as EUROBALL and GAMMASPHERE [1]) are obtained by combining together several crystals. The crystals are generally placed far enough from the source of radiation in order to limit the Doppler broadening of photons emitted from nuclei in motion with typical recoil velocity of a few percent of the speed of light. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2012
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